Avlipi Zurabashvili was born on 15th February 1902 in the village of Bodbiskhevi, Signagi district, Georgia.
[2] Zurabashvili is the author of basic studies in the fine structure of the brain, the reversibility of nervous cell lesions, pathopsychology, personology and pathopersonology that have received international recognition.
Zurabashvili has 400 studies to his credit, published in Georgian, Russian, French, English, German, Italian, and other languages, including 22 monographs.
Among his numerous pupils 80 are candidates and 40 doctors of science, as well as professors and members of scientific academies.
[3][4] It should be emphasized that Zurabashvili initiated a special line of research in neuromorphology, termed «synaptoarchitectonics» and «pathosynaptoarchitectonics», and in 1947 he published, for the first time, a generalizing study: The Synapses (in Russian).